author - "Frederick Marryat"
Like Most Other Children, Who Should Be My Godfather Is Decided By Mammon--So Precocious As To Make Some Noise In The World And Be Hung A Few Days After I Was Born--Cut Down In Time And Produce A Scene Of Bloodshed--My Early Propensities Fully Developed By The Choice Of My Profession Those Who May Be Pleased To Honour These Pages With A Perusal, Will Not Be Detained With A Long Introductory History Of My Birth, Parentage, And Education. The Very Title Implies That, At This Period Of My Memoirs,
Like Most Other Children, Who Should Be My Godfather Is Decided By Mammon--So Precocious As To Make Some Noise In The World And Be Hung A Few Days After I Was Born--Cut Down In Time And Produce A Scene Of Bloodshed--My Early Propensities Fully Developed By The Choice Of My Profession Those Who May Be Pleased To Honour These Pages With A Perusal, Will Not Be Detained With A Long Introductory History Of My Birth, Parentage, And Education. The Very Title Implies That, At This Period Of My Memoirs,